Da Capo 2010

MICHELLE TEA * The Gossip Takes Paris * The Believer

GREG TATE * Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror * The Village Voice

JASON KING * Michael Jackson: An Appreciation of His Talent * Passed the Curve

SASHA FRERE-JONES * Living on the Radio: The-Dream is Everywhere * The New Yorker

CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN * Twitter & The Death of Rock Criticism * The 140 Characters Conference, New York City,
June 17, 2009

ERIKA VILLANI * On “Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys—Empire State of Mind * The Singles Jukebox

MAURA JOHNSTON * Kanye West: Back to Reality? * Idolator

HUA HSU * The End of White America? * The Atlantic

ROBERT CHRISTGAU * Paisley’s Progress * Barnes & Noble Review

JOSH KUN * Mexican Bands Hear Success Calling * The New York Times

GEOFFREY HIMES * BeauSoleil: Beau Brothers * OffBeat

RANDALL ROBERTS * On the Road to Burma: Globetrotting with Ozomatli, Unlikely U.S. Diplomats * LA Weekly

JESSICA HOPPER * The Passion of David Bazan * Chicago Reader

NITSUH ABEBE * The Decade in Indie * Pitchfork

TIMOTHY QUIRK * My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement * Too Much Joy

EVIE NAGY * Biscuits and Jam With a Side of Mud * Billboard

PHILIP S. BRYANT * Stompin’ at The Grand Terrace: Excerpts from a Jazz Memoir in Verse * Utne Reader

TIMMHOTEP AKU, CARL CHERY, CLOVER HOPE, ROB MARKMAN, STARRENE RHETT AND ANSELM SAMUEL * Still Ill *
XXL Magazine

BARRY WALTERS * The Revolution Will Be Harmonized * Out

AARON LEITKO * The Orange Line Revolution * Washington City Paper

EUGENE HOLLEY, JR. * One on One with Maria Schneider * PMP: The Annual Magazine of the Philadelphia Music Project

MARK SWED * Conducting 101 * Los Angeles Times

LOLA OGUNNAIKE * Drake: Rookie of the Year * Vibe

PHILLIP MLYNAR * 50 Cent: One Dethroned King Out to Reclaim His Crown * Hip Hop Connection

GREG PRATT * Regret, Divorce, Compromise * Monday Magazine

JASON FINE * The Fighter: The Life and Times of Merle Haggard * Rolling Stone

CHRIS WILLMAN * A Very Dylan Christmas * New York Magazine

NIKKI DARLING * Appropriate for Destruction * Live from the Penis Gallery

JON CARAMANICA * Help from His Friends: The Return of a Fallen Idol * The New York Times

RAQUEL CEPEDA * Another Love TKO: Teens Grapple with Rihanna vs. Chris Brown * The Village Voice

SEAN NELSON * Let’s (Not) Get It On * The Stranger

MARY GAITSKILL * Lady Gaga in Hell * Ryeberg Curated Video

CHRIS ESTEY * Phil Ochs Greatest Hits * Get Well

TAVIA NYONG’O * Adam’s Return * Bully Bloggers

ALEX ROSS * Voice of the Century: Celebrating Marian Anderson * The New Yorker

JODY ROSEN * Vanishing Act: In Search of Eva Tanguay, the First Rock Star * Slate

<3 that greg tate piece so so so so so so much

will be buying this

supposedly that Merle Haggard story is supposed to be the end-all-be-all of music writing in 2010 and I'm kind of psyched to sit down with it

If it's the same story RS ran last summer, yes, it's very good.

CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN * Twitter & The Death of Rock Criticism * The 140 Characters Conference, New York City,
June 17, 2009

who dat

NITSUH ABEBE * The Decade in Indie * Pitchfork

This was good, but wish they'd publish The Decade in Noise alongside it...

wait nabisco's name isn't blocked anymore?

yeah, an era has gone by

http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gifs/01622.gif

Who's editing it this year? Congrats to those selected this year.

It used to creep me out when Nitsuh's name was automatically replaced. It must be what the internet is like in China.

i'd understand why shitty posters would want their name google-bleeped, but never understood how anything bad could befall people knowing that nitsuh abebe is remarkably otm with everything he says

lol

that's because you weren't there when Ethan was attempting to googlebomb his name with really gross shit

that's crazy talk, Dan Perry

http://static-wtb.cheshirecat.net/images/house_centipede_vegetarian.jpg

lol

Is that a vegetarian centipede??

kinda miss when I was writing long-form pieces and sometimes getting a "read also" at the end of these books

i'd understand why shitty posters would want their name google-bleeped,

rly cool cause one time I saw p@rts & lab0r and to be honest it wasn't that great a show and you were mean to me at the merch table. ok well not mean but it was pretty obvious after I'd been talking to you for fifteen minutes that you were brushing me off. then you guys broke up but do you have an extra track for a tape-only comp I'm putting out? I can't pay anything and won't send you a copy and will smear your name if you so much as suggest I've been anything but awesome to you, but you should send me a track. you guys were awesome! anyway what I was wanting to tell you was I read your twitter thing, and I RTd a lot of your posts but you never even RTd mine, what's that about? when I was following you from like early on? can't even believe that shit man. what comes around goes around. hey I'm dj'ing a party next weekend though and you should come. my number's 917555WICH, I tried to get 917WTCHOUS but they said no numbers with WTC. double tee eff more like, right? Ha. You gotta go to the bathroom? Cool, me too. Seriously though, were these the only P&L releases: [lists, accurately, entire P&L discography; removes penis from pants, urinates into urinal while continuing monologue) Yeah I have all those. Well I "have" 'em, hah, I think the only one I actually own is the R1se, R1se, R1se split on N@rnack. I used to know the guy who runs N@nack, what a cool dude! He gave me that R1se, R1se, R1se split. At this party we were both at. Cool guy, right? Well I mean you'd know, you worked with him. Man! I saw you at Brownie's. Do you play cross-stick? I tried for a while but I think I'd probably be better on keyboards. Buncha good keyboard-based bands around here lately. you wanna spin at my party? we have ten dj's already, mostly friends, but it's going to be awesome.

no Pitchfork Reviews Reviews no credibility

cool post, ilxor

idgi

can't speak for him, but i'm pretty sure that both nitsuh and myself can safely take a leak in public without "rock critic Stan" badgering us

iirc nabisco had his name changed because he was getting hate mail

I mean if you don't actively have haters on yr dick then you a) are richly, richly blessed or b) have lucked out so far

I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm a nitsuh dork
I even got the underground shit that you did for 'Fork
I got a browser full of your bookmarks and your tumblrs man
I like the shit you did with The Guardian too, that shit was fat

I mean if you don't actively have haters on yr dick then you a) are richly, richly blessed or b) have lucked out so far

or c) do not have a dick

haha, no, that quality doesn't really slow down that particular phenomenon

loooooooool

ERIKA VILLANI * On “Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys—Empire State of Mind * The Singles Jukebox

It's kind of great that this wasn't even a featured blurb on the Jukebox but a comment underneath.

Ann Powers was guest ed., btw. Looks really good, will sit down with as soon as I can (lots of work reading to do).

if I remember correctly, the name-replacement thing went like this

- ethan & folks goofing around googlebombing it
- ilx moves up search rankings for years
- my mom googles me
- I make the mistake of saying "could someone un-index this particular thread?"
- obviously this acts as a cue for people to resume google-bombing
- a moderator (TOMBOT?) attempts to clean up the google-bombing, not for my sake but just because it's wasting space
- this only encourages it
- finally that moderator is just like "fine, I'll turn on the pre-existing LJ name-replace function, how you like THAT"

anyway I am really excited to read all of this! the thing of mine in there was sort of dorky, so I almost hope some of the more "general" readership just takes a pass on it

mom-googling has ruined more than one ILXor

moogling

btw can I just say WOO HOO for having a very common name

kind of mad tho that imgoogling me pulls up a pic of Violent J tho

http://www.wendycarlos.com/photos/moog77.jpg

moog ^^

http://www.musicgadgets.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/minimoog_voyager_os.jpg

moogling ^^

I didn't know that was the deal with the nabisco name substitution. Weird. I sometimes regret using my own name as my display name. It was a point of principle initially but I'm just sick of seeing it up there on the screen now.

so great that erika's non-blurb got in!! i submitted that, i think (or at least meant to) (not as if i was the only one to, though).

I have to resist the urge to just read all this online today -- always much better to do it with a book in hand

the last one of these I bought was 2007's, primarily so I could have a hard copy of Erik Davis's fantastic Joanna Newsom piece and "Imperfect Sound Forever"

Wait, nitsuh and nabisco are the same person? How o how did I never realise this before?! Love both of your work, guys!

my mom used to altavista me u_u

Here's the Leitko Orange Line Revolution piece which is about now-gone Arlington, Virginia (near DC) punk/indie group homes.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/38231/the-orange-line-revolution-the-year-that-punk-rock-left

Tate's a great writer and the Jackson piece is impressive but I'm not crazy about his 'it's not like it was in the past' meme re great African-American music in that article, even though he explains it.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/news/michael-jackson-the-man-in-our-mirror/

imo this is still the best MJ piece i read
http://ernesthardy.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-bless-his-soul.html

stopped reading the Tate at "maybe the next humbling god of the kulcha will be a starchitect or a superstring theorist"

lmao

that ernest hardy piece is such great writing

TAVIA NYONG’O * Adam’s Return * Bully Bloggers

^great piece, going to actually listen Glambert's album because of it

that appears to be a blog post, in which the first paragraph's errors include "your" instead of "you're" and "is" instead of "its."

well yeah but he raises some good points

besides calling Mika the "vanguard of queer pop" or whatever

i do like the 2 paragraphs in the second half where he talks about the music on the album (although they do anything but make me want to listen to it). but i'm gonna go ahead and be a snob about an error-riddled blog post more about sexual politics than anything else making it into a "best music writing" anthology.

Why were the errors preserved? For verisimilitude? Or was it just bleary-eyed editorial fucking up?

maybe they cleaned it up for the book, i'm just going off googling the title and reading the original blog posting

stopped reading the Tate at "maybe the next humbling god of the kulcha will be a starchitect or a superstring theorist"

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still lollin @ this

xgau:

http://www.najp.org/articles/2010/11/best-music-writing-2010-is.html

the internet will be awfully quiet if whiney and nabisco are BOTH gonna be reading in public on the same day. might as well shut it down for the night.

southpaw otm

southpaw kind of a chillwave name

awww making me kind of nostalgic for the time i met all these ilxors at housing works like nabisco and sang freud. good times...

i should really write something again. its the only time i ever get to see the country a little

do it! nyc <3 skot.